Jerusalem Blade
Puritan Board Professor
Hi Moselle,
One approach would be to check out the Arts and Faith -> Literature & Creative Writing forum. I've seen some discussion of Christian (authors writing) sci fi, and at least one of the posters has a sci fi / fantasy series he's published. You could even ask for suggestions if you join the Arts & Faith board.
Also there is Stephen Lawhead's two-volume sci fi work, Empyrion (ISBN 0745918727). I have it but haven't yet read it, though a friend recommended it highly. Lawhead is, I am given to believe, a Christian. If Empyrion is half as good as his Arthurian legend series (Taliesin the award-winning first novel in that) it should be great. Though I did not like his early In the Hall of the Dragon King at all.
I agree with TimV, I didn't like Canticle for Leibowitz either. Nor did I think much of C.S. Lewis' space trilogy (read it when I was a young Christian maybe 35 or more years ago). I read some Dune and Foundation stuff ages ago but I can't even remember them.
I am of the mind what's really happening in the spirit world and on the earth today far exceeds any sci fi or fantasy fictions, but who tells it? At some point I'll introduce some of my own writings in the visionary adventure non-fiction genre.
Hope this helps.
One approach would be to check out the Arts and Faith -> Literature & Creative Writing forum. I've seen some discussion of Christian (authors writing) sci fi, and at least one of the posters has a sci fi / fantasy series he's published. You could even ask for suggestions if you join the Arts & Faith board.
Also there is Stephen Lawhead's two-volume sci fi work, Empyrion (ISBN 0745918727). I have it but haven't yet read it, though a friend recommended it highly. Lawhead is, I am given to believe, a Christian. If Empyrion is half as good as his Arthurian legend series (Taliesin the award-winning first novel in that) it should be great. Though I did not like his early In the Hall of the Dragon King at all.
I agree with TimV, I didn't like Canticle for Leibowitz either. Nor did I think much of C.S. Lewis' space trilogy (read it when I was a young Christian maybe 35 or more years ago). I read some Dune and Foundation stuff ages ago but I can't even remember them.
I am of the mind what's really happening in the spirit world and on the earth today far exceeds any sci fi or fantasy fictions, but who tells it? At some point I'll introduce some of my own writings in the visionary adventure non-fiction genre.
Hope this helps.